John Marsden (writer) - Tomorrow series

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Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.

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At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

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When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

John Marsden
People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.

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We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

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All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

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A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong...

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Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

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The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

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We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

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They say teenagers can sleep all day. I often used to look at dogs and be amazed by the way they seemed to sleep for twenty hours a day. But I envied them too. It was the kind of lifestyle I could relate to.We didn't sleep for twenty hours, but we gave it our best shot.

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